C Counihan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12967 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C Counihan |
| PRENOMES | C |
| SOBRENOME | Counihan |
| ASSINATURA | COUNIHAN C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Millersville University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6638-5447 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Riding the Wave of Food Anthropology
This paper describes the rise of food anthropology through the lens of the author's personal experience of the field from 1974 through 2025. Using food‐centered life history interviews with Florentines in Italy and Hispanics in the U.S. Southwest, the author has focused on women's identity, relationships and power. This work has reflected the growing cultural and political‐economic bent of food anthropology and its strong feminist perspectives. T…
Food Activism and Language in a Slow Food Italy Restaurant Menu
This essay explores how food activists in Italy purposely shape food and language to construct meaning and value. It is grounded in years of ethnographic fieldwork on food and culture in Italy and looks specifically at the Slow Food Movement. The essay explores language and food activism through a detailed unpacking of the text of a menu prepared for a restaurant dinner for delegates to the Slow Food National Chapter Assembly in 2009. The menu us…
Food and women in Italian literature, culture and society
Food and women in Italian literature, culture and society: eve’s sinful bite." Food, Culture & Society, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Special section
We are excited to publish the following “Reflection” on “Food and the Pandemic” in response to our Call for Papers. “Reflections” are short, peppy essays about topics of contemporary interest; they
Sensing East London
Cultural Heritage in Food Activism
This chapter explores the role of cultural heritage in food activism in Italy through an ethnographic case study from the city of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia. It examines whether recourse to culinary cultural heritage can advance the overriding goal of food activism: the promotion of food democracy. Cultural heritage in food includes the material, such as landrace plants, and traditional dishes as well as the immaterial, such as cuisine. C…
Americans in Tuscany
Gendering Food
One of the central questions in feminism is whether gender matters. In the case of food activism, gender is also a controversial issue. In particular, one may ask how foodways—the beliefs and behaviors surrounding food production, distribution, and consumption—constrain and empower men and women to become political actors, or how gender power and identity are enacted in food activism. In this article, the author reviews the literature on food and…
Uma visão antropológica do prodigioso jejum de mulheres ocidentais
No prodigioso jejum, às vezes até a morte, mulheres ocidentais expressaram uma relação específica com a comida durante quase oito séculos. Este ensaio tenta explicar esse comportamento entretecendo os finos e fascinantes dados históricos apresentados nos três livros resenhados - Holy Anorexia (Bell, 1985); Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (Brumberg, 1988) e Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance o…
Hog and Hominy
Everyone eats
Making place with the food voice in the san Luis Valley of Colorado
Food, Feelings and Film
This paper uses the Mexican film Like Water for Chocolate (1991) to address the question of how women can use food as a path to power. Directed by Alfonso Arau based on his wife Laura Esquivel's screenplay, the film uses lush and sensual images of foods and cooking to articulate a rich picture of family and gender. By portraying several characters' relationship to food, and through food to each other, the film suggests multiple ways women can car…
Around the Tuscan Table
In this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid research, Counihan examines how family, and especially gender have changed in Florence since the end of World War II to the present, giving us a portrait of the changing nature of modern life as exemplified through food and foodways.
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Council on Nutritional Anthropology
Remembrance of Repasts
Measuring Mamma's Milk
Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy. Elizabeth Dixon Whitaker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 358 pp
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Culture, and the Past. Sidney W. Mintz. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. xix. 149 pp., Index, works cited, notes
The Sociology of the Meal
The Sociology of the Meal. Roy C. Wood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.139 pp
Food, sex, and reproduction
Sexual and alimentary processes involve passage across the borders of the body, linking individuals to people and substances outside of themselves. These processes are essential to life, growth, and differentiation, but can threaten the autonomy and integrity of the self. They often involve clear polarizations of male and female roles into opposites which are interconnected and complementary. Hence the study of cultural conceptions of how food se…
Food Rules in the United States
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
An anthropological view of western women's prodigious fasting
Rudolph M. Bell (1985). Holy Anorexia. Epilogue by William N. Davis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Joan Jacobs Brumberg (1988). Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Caroline Walker Bynum (1987). Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press
Society for Anthropology of Europe
Food Rules in the United States
Female Identity, Food, and Power in Contemporary Florence
Life histories from contemporary Florentine women reveal that their identity andpower have traditionally been attained and manifested through control overfood provisioning. Furthermore, their ability to manipulate the symbolic content offood has enabled them to influence the behavior and values of theirfamilies. Recent changes in Italian society and economy have brought new role expectationsfor women. They now try to remain theprincipal administr…
Bread as World
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Culture, and the Past. Sidney W. Mintz. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. xix. 149 pp., Index, works cited, notes
Uma visão antropológica do prodigioso jejum de mulheres ocidentais
No prodigioso jejum, às vezes até a morte, mulheres ocidentais expressaram uma relação específica com a comida durante quase oito séculos. Este ensaio tenta explicar esse comportamento entretecendo os finos e fascinantes dados históricos apresentados nos três livros resenhados - Holy Anorexia (Bell, 1985); Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (Brumberg, 1988) e Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance o…
Food, Feelings and Film
This paper uses the Mexican film Like Water for Chocolate (1991) to address the question of how women can use food as a path to power. Directed by Alfonso Arau based on his wife Laura Esquivel's screenplay, the film uses lush and sensual images of foods and cooking to articulate a rich picture of family and gender. By portraying several characters' relationship to food, and through food to each other, the film suggests multiple ways women can car…
La fotografia come metodo antropologico
La fotografia come metodo antropologico
Bread as World
What does it mean to be fat, thin, and female in the United States
Boskind‐White, Marlene, and William C. White (1983). Bulimarexia: The Binge/Purge Cycle. New York: Norton. Bruch, Hilde (1978). The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa. New York: Vintage. Chemin, Kim (1981). The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness. New York: Harper & Row. Millman, Marcia (1980). Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America. New York: Norton. Orbach, Susie (1978). Fat Is a Feminist Issue: The Anti‐Diet Guide t…
Film Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Salt and Hypertension. The Sugar Film
Antonio Gramsci and social science
Good to Eat
Female Identity, Food, and Power in Contemporary Florence
Life histories from contemporary Florentine women reveal that their identity andpower have traditionally been attained and manifested through control overfood provisioning. Furthermore, their ability to manipulate the symbolic content offood has enabled them to influence the behavior and values of theirfamilies. Recent changes in Italian society and economy have brought new role expectationsfor women. They now try to remain theprincipal administr…
An anthropological view of western women's prodigious fasting
Rudolph M. Bell (1985). Holy Anorexia. Epilogue by William N. Davis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Joan Jacobs Brumberg (1988). Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Caroline Walker Bynum (1987). Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press
Society for Anthropology of Europe
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Food Rules in the United States
Food, sex, and reproduction
Sexual and alimentary processes involve passage across the borders of the body, linking individuals to people and substances outside of themselves. These processes are essential to life, growth, and differentiation, but can threaten the autonomy and integrity of the self. They often involve clear polarizations of male and female roles into opposites which are interconnected and complementary. Hence the study of cultural conceptions of how food se…
The Sociology of the Meal
The Sociology of the Meal. Roy C. Wood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.139 pp
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Culture, and the Past. Sidney W. Mintz. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. xix. 149 pp., Index, works cited, notes
Remembrance of Repasts
Measuring Mamma's Milk
Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy. Elizabeth Dixon Whitaker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 358 pp
Around the Tuscan Table
In this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid research, Counihan examines how family, and especially gender have changed in Florence since the end of World War II to the present, giving us a portrait of the changing nature of modern life as exemplified through food and foodways.
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Council on Nutritional Anthropology
Food, Feelings and Film
This paper uses the Mexican film Like Water for Chocolate (1991) to address the question of how women can use food as a path to power. Directed by Alfonso Arau based on his wife Laura Esquivel's screenplay, the film uses lush and sensual images of foods and cooking to articulate a rich picture of family and gender. By portraying several characters' relationship to food, and through food to each other, the film suggests multiple ways women can car…
Making place with the food voice in the san Luis Valley of Colorado
Everyone eats
Hog and Hominy
Gendering Food
One of the central questions in feminism is whether gender matters. In the case of food activism, gender is also a controversial issue. In particular, one may ask how foodways—the beliefs and behaviors surrounding food production, distribution, and consumption—constrain and empower men and women to become political actors, or how gender power and identity are enacted in food activism. In this article, the author reviews the literature on food and…
Uma visão antropológica do prodigioso jejum de mulheres ocidentais
No prodigioso jejum, às vezes até a morte, mulheres ocidentais expressaram uma relação específica com a comida durante quase oito séculos. Este ensaio tenta explicar esse comportamento entretecendo os finos e fascinantes dados históricos apresentados nos três livros resenhados - Holy Anorexia (Bell, 1985); Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (Brumberg, 1988) e Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance o…
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